Sinclair Lewis

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Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his satirical portrayals of middle-class life and for being the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Label Occurrences
Sinclair Lewis canonical 7
Harry Sinclair Lewis 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
novelist
playwright
satirist
awardReceived Nobel Prize in Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
surface form: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (declined)
birthName Sinclair Lewis self-linksurface differs
surface form: Harry Sinclair Lewis
burialPlace Greenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States
causeOfDeath heart disease
child Michael Lewis
Wells Lewis
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1885-02-07
dateOfDeath 1951-01-10
educatedAt Yale University
employer The Saturday Evening Post
surface form: Saturday Evening Post

various publishing houses
familyName Lewis
fieldOfWork American society and culture
gender male
genre satire
social criticism
givenName Sinclair
influenced American social novelists
influencedBy Herbert George Wells
surface form: H. G. Wells

Theodore Dreiser
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement realism
social realism
NobelPrizeYear 1930
notableAchievement first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
notableWork Arrowsmith
Babbitt
Dodsworth
Elmer Gantry
It Couldn’t Happen Here
surface form: It Can't Happen Here

Main Street
occupation novelist
playwright
short story writer
period 20th century literature
placeOfBirth Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States of America
surface form: Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States
placeOfDeath Rome
surface form: Rome, Italy
residence London, England
surface form: London, United Kingdom

New York City
surface form: New York City, United States

Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States of America
surface form: Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States

Vermont
surface form: Vermont, United States
spouse Dorothy Thompson
Grace Livingston Hegger
writingStyle satirical portrayal of American middle-class life

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Sinclair hasNotableBearer Sinclair Lewis
this entity surface form: Harry Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair hasNotableBearer Sinclair Lewis
Lewis hasNotableBearer Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis birthName Sinclair Lewis self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Harry Sinclair Lewis
Dodsworth (play) basedOnWorkBy Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry authorOfSourceWork Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry characterCreatedBy Sinclair Lewis
Jazz Age literature hasNotableAuthor Sinclair Lewis